I'm highly interested in this. It's utterly relevant to me as I find myself in exactly the same situation. I just found this thread yesterday. (Took me this long to read it).
17th April 2025 a Car registered to me got a parking ticket from Parkingeye, £100 PCN issued to me as the registered keeper with the standard options to declare who was driving if I wasn't. I advised them I wasn't the driver and Had no legal obligation to tell them who was... I had cheekily said its not my fault they have entered into an agreement and they don't know who they entered it with. They then send a letter talking about schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
I tell them as they well know since the car is registered in Scotland and I live in Scotland that the Protection of Freedoms Act is an English Act and does not apply to me in Scotland... I wasn't even in the country after all.
Flash forward 20 emails back and forth where they dismiss my appeal and in one email "disagree" with my position. I tell them my day rate and say the correspondence has gone on long enough, I refuse to waste my time any longer, after 3 more emails I advise them my time now equates the value they are chasing and will only increase. I start telling them it is now harassment as their language is constantly threatening and scaremongering, they need to either take me to court or stop threatening me.
It goes quiet for a month and then yesterday I get a letter from DBCL (Debt Collection Bailiffs Ltd) telling me in bold on the header its a NOTICE IF DEBT RECOVERY. Then generic language about precedence being set and supreme court decisions. Threats about consequences. then the final paragraph
"You now have 14 days from the date of this letter to either pay the outstanding amount or call us to discuss repayment. This case is not subject to High Court or Bailiff action, however, should you fail to contact us, we will recommend to our client the commencement of legal action against you."
My frustration comes as while I can read through the blurb and bluster, others out there would be scared into paying these charlatans. Calling your company "Debt Collection Bailiffs" and naming the letter a "NOTICE OF DEBT RECOVERY" is wrong and misleading.
I'll write to them today to tell them this and point out I have no debt with their client, only a dispute. They should advise their client to set a court date so I can laugh at them and never contact me again. That I have added my time to Parkingeyes running bill should we ever get to court.
Sorry I've not added all the correspondence but it's very repetitive where I get standard responses in standard letter format not really relating to what has been sent them. Please note I have no idea how to get a new paragraph in this post, the preview shows it all mashed together, sorry.
